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By now, you've likely heard about how the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has hidden secret spying software in a number of hard drives made by a number of top manufacturers. As revealed and reported by Kapersky Lab from Moscow, this spy software is buried deep inside the hard drives, giving the NSA a "back door" into snooping on computers …

Thunderbolt (formerly known as Lightpeak before Apple "reinvented" it) is an interesting technology that does all sorts of things that USB 3.0 doesn't do. For starters, it has a whole ton more bandwidth, it's able to be daisy chained, and it can even be used to connect monitors and other devices. It showed a lot of promise, but the …

Mechanical hard drives will never die, it would seem. Every time solid state drives makes a move forward in capacity, pushing mechanical out of the market, they push back. The tried and true Western Digital Black lineup has been out breed and butter for some time, but it may need to make room for the new larger capacity WD Purple …

Backblaze, an online backup service provider, has revealed the results of their continuous hard drive reliability report which features data collected over 34,881 drives from manufacturers such as Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi. We originally covered their first report in February of 2014, where the company revealed that certain Seagate drives had a significantly higher failure rate than other …

Remember when you never thought you'd never be able to fill that brand new 4TB drive? Yeah, how'd that turn out for you? Well you're in luck. Seagate has announced the release of an 8TB hard drive, giving you even more room for all your "backups."

Actually, this new drive will fall into Seagate's enterprise product line and will contain …

The FBI has recently come under fire for a new technique they have been using to track people while they are browsing the web. This new technique is essentially installing malware on people's computers and using that to access browser histories, key strokes, and more. They are hacking into people's private computers and spying on them. This is a double-edged …

In this day and age of digital entertainment, the associated files that are edited to bring you amazing still life imagery or high-definition video require high performance peripherals. With a large amount of digital content producers being out on location and not in the comfort of their studios, their devices need to be portable without sacrificing performance. This is where …

We've covered LaCie productsbefore, and have even visited them at CES. As such, we always like to keep an eye out and see what they're releasing next. They have just announced another in their line of Thunderbolt based storage solutions aimed at content production. This time they're utilizing the speeds offered by Thunderbolt 2 and dual hard …

LaCie is one of the best known brands when it comes to external/portable drives. One of their best known products is the Rugged Drive which boasted being dust, shock, and water resistance. This year, Seagate has upgraded the Lacie Rugged Drive with all new internal components to make it faster and more durable than ever before.

Ever since the Toshiba take over of OCZ, the company formally know for RAM and storage solutions has been making a surge back into the market with their many SSD products. This year's COMPUTEX show is another step in their re-entry, with their booth both showing off their entire line of current products and facilitating the announcement of some new …

WD, the company Western Digital sells their hard drives under, demonstrated something very interesting at Computex 2014. With a few key partners, WD introduced the prototype for their SATA Express interface. The new interface is based off PCI Express, and is offered in the recently launched Intel series-9 chipset motherboard platforms.

As one video so eloquently illustrated, the 2013 Mac Pro from Apple doesn't give you much in terms of upgrade capabilities. That being said, there is the Thunderbolt port on there. OWC told us at CES that there were some DIY upgrades available and now they've come through with the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual.